Name: Those Strange Days (Free_mp3_download) by The Firegazers
Duration: 4 min 51 s
Description: Artist: The Firegazers, Demo: Never Too Late (2010), Track 1: Those Strange Days

Artist: The Firegazers, Demo: Never Too Late (2010), Track 1: Those Strange Days

Those Strange Days (Free_mp3_download)

Artist: The Firegazers, Demo: Never Too Late (2010), Track 2: Dreams

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Artist: The Firegazers, Demo: Guilty Pleasures (2014), Track 3: Butterfly Effect
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Artist: The Firegazers
Song: Dreams
Live At The Smiling Buddha (Toronto, Canada)
August 21, 2015

Dreams (Live At Smiling Buddha. Aug21, 2015)

NOVEMBER BELLS (Home Demo)

Autumn In August (Symphonic Rock about my last accounting job :().

Watch the dying light, dying in her eyes
dying with a brief, initial past delight
watch the fake yellow yellow sun disappear
as the BOTTOM LINE fades to red

Their smile
and words are sweet
a smokescreen to disguise their deeds
they trap the pretty ones with honey 
and broken promises
they orchestrate
and coordinate
...a routine plan to seclude their preys
naive strange and pretty things paid (uhm...very little) to
participate

[chorus]
In a prison you can't walk away
they say you're free to go!
well, number's don't lie - caved under all that you borrowed  
these forgeries won't protect you from tomorrow (fake documents happen more often than you'd think :(...)
[/chorus]

They say
it's time
to face your fears
You know that's code for 
the sun to disappear
in fact it was never really here...
in this bitter cold
sanctuary
I swear I can shiver like
just like autumn in august

Watch the dying light...

A little background information: this song is about a morally corrupt organization who primarily employs non-english speaking immigrants (like a sanctuary) who cannot find jobs elsewhere. Their Account Managers are the "pretty, naive things" I mentioned who sells cosmetics for the company for below-market pay. "Face your fears" is the constant threat of termination and extortion tactics that employees face from their management - all stick, no carrot. Fake sun: phony management with pleasant exteriors while they throw you, the scapegoat, under the bus. "A prison you can't walk away" refers to the employees who cannot obtain gainful employment elsewhere because either they can't speak English, or they may possibly not have obtained work permit. In either case, you can't walk away from the only hand that feeds - see Maslow's Hierarchy of needs. Lastly, "They say you're free to go" - well, they sure say that to demonstrate their power over your helplessness, knowing that there's too much to lose if you go.  

"These forgeries won't protect you from tomorrow" - Well, internal control AND discretion isn't exactly this organization's strong suit. 


I hope that provided some clarity to the otherwise vague metaphors.

Autumn in August (finished goods version)

Members: 
- Marc Sidebury: Vocals, Acoustic-Electric Guitars, Drum Beats programming. 
- Harriet Hume: Bass 
- Mr. BR600: All other sounds.

Past Members (still good friends):
- Mick Wasteland: Electric Guitars, Bass 
- John Lowe: Drums 
- Johnny Cassidy: Bass
- Saul Pardillo: Bass

All tracks written by Marc Sidebury
Genre: Rock 
Hometown: Toronto, Dublin, London
Record label: valium100mg productions
Contact: firegazers@hotmail.com

Those Strange Days (Free_mp3_download)

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